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Originally Posted by uniquemkt
I still have a hard time believing how pervasive skimming is in this industry! One of the things that attracts me to "new" programs is that the affiliate managers probably haven't figured out how skimming works...
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lol I do much the same except I like to read forum posts from the owners and the managers. Ideally I look for people who honestly just might eat a bullet before they would steal a dime from me. With dating and cams though sometimes it feels like a challenge to find one who wouldn't throw their own mother off a cliff for ten cents.
Pro tip: The Blackhats tend to know who has been naughty and who has been nice.
If you are starting a program and you want to get ahead with affiliates simply be honest and fair. You'll come out far ahead of the dishonest ones in the stats and earnings as long as you have some clue about what you are otherwise doing. Stay honest and you'll always have a business. Get greedy like so many others have and expect your affiliates to abandon you and shun your next program. While it's true many affiliates are morons, the suckers are starting to disappear.
I'm taking down a lot of cam and dating promos today and replacing them with PPC ads from others in fact. It's not worth it to send to them when they are converting 1:2,000 to 1:20,000. Especially not when I know that traffic really does better than I am getting credit for. And it's doubtful they are going to start converting better in the future so I might as well nip it in the bud now.